On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 6:51 AM houzj.f...@fujitsu.com
<houzj.f...@fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
> On Tues, Nov 23, 2021 6:16 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 1:29 PM houzj.f...@fujitsu.com
> > <houzj.f...@fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tues, Nov 23, 2021 2:27 PM vignesh C <vignes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 7:04 AM Peter Smith <smithpb2...@gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > PSA new set of v40* patches.
> > > >
> > > > Few comments:
> > > > 1) When a table is added to the publication, replica identity is 
> > > > checked. But
> > > > while modifying the publish action to include delete/update, replica 
> > > > identity is
> > > > not checked for the existing tables. I felt it should be checked for 
> > > > the existing
> > > > tables too.
> > >
> > > In addition to this, I think we might also need some check to prevent 
> > > user from
> > > changing the REPLICA IDENTITY index which is used in the filter 
> > > expression.
> > >
> > > I was thinking is it possible do the check related to REPLICA IDENTITY in
> > > function CheckCmdReplicaIdentity() or In GetRelationPublicationActions(). 
> > > If we
> > > move the REPLICA IDENTITY check to this function, it would be consistent 
> > > with
> > > the existing behavior about the check related to REPLICA IDENTITY(see the
> > > comments in CheckCmdReplicaIdentity) and seems can cover all the cases
> > > mentioned above.
> > >
> >
> > Yeah, adding the replica identity check in CheckCmdReplicaIdentity()
> > would cover all the above cases but I think that would put a premium
> > on each update/delete operation. I think traversing the expression
> > tree (it could be multiple traversals if the relation is part of
> > multiple publications) during each update/delete would be costly.
> > Don't you think so?
>
> Yes, I agreed that traversing the expression every time would be costly.
>
> I thought maybe we can cache the columns used in row filter or cache only the 
> a
> flag(can_update|delete) in the relcache. I think every operation that affect
> the row-filter or replica-identity will invalidate the relcache and the cost 
> of
> check seems acceptable with the cache.
>

I think if we can cache this information especially as a bool flag
then that should probably be better.

-- 
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.


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